The $1.50 Bouncer for Fake Job Applicants
Applications per job more than doubled to 244 as recruiting teams shrank, and North Korean IT workers turned remote hiring into a breach vector. The hiring fraud opening sits below enterprise pricing.
Tech Inflection
Business ideas emerging from technological breakthroughs such as AI, automation, and new infrastructure. Captures the inflection points where innovation suddenly becomes commercially viable.
The LTO Lab: Seasonal Drink R&D for Boba Shops ($10K/Month)
Restaurant LTO launches hit 41,707 in 2025. A pickle lemon tart from Japan's Lawson shows the AI menu R&D method you can sell to independent boba shops for $399.
The Exception Desk: $40K MRR Hiding Inside Dental Payer Portals
The dental industry spent $2.1 billion verifying insurance benefits in 2024, and a third of private-practice dentists plan to bring in AI for it. The wedge runs through Open Dental.
The Photo Audit: $9.5K a Month Hiding Inside Google Lens
Google Search Console now separates Google Lens and Circle to Search traffic. Merchants can finally see visual search demand. Nothing yet tells them which product photos to shoot next.
The $25,000 Contact Form: AI Intake for Web Agencies
Voice AI has become cheap plumbing. The money sits in judgment: an intake desk that qualifies web agency leads in seconds and books the Shopify projects worth an owner's evening.
The Paper Trail Newsletter: $5K MRR From Council Agendas
Council agendas, zoning filings and permits are public, and almost nobody reads them. With reporters gone and AI summaries misfiring, the record under the rumor mill is up for grabs.
Fannie Mae's Condo Crackdown Opened a $1M ARR Software Gap
Fannie Mae just retired Limited Review for condo projects, and lenders need far more HOA evidence. Between contract and underwriting sits a document workflow nobody owns yet.
The $29 Critic That Reads Your Launch Before Reddit Does
Founders paste launch posts into ChatGPT minutes before hitting Publish. A pre-publication red team for Show HN, Reddit, and Product Hunt turns that anxiety into a $21K MRR SaaS.
The $19 Pause Button for Lawyers Who Paste Into ChatGPT
71% of solo lawyers use AI, nearly half on consumer ChatGPT, and a federal judge ruled a consumer AI chat isn't privileged. The wedge is a $19 browser extension.
The Microdrama Ad Studio: $60K MRR From Romance Backlists
China industrialized AI vertical drama, ReelShort proved paid creative sells it, BookTok moved 50 million books, and top romance authors spend $4,500 a month on ads. The bridge is unbuilt.
The Anti-Storage Business: $24K a Month Emptying Units Nobody Opens
Self-storage's $40 billion model runs on deferred decisions: 46% of Extra Space tenants have paid two-plus years. The storage unit cleanout business sits on the other side of that indecision.
Returns Software's Regulatory Cousin: 276,000 Recalled Toys, One Inbox
CPSC approved five destroy-and-photograph recall remedies in one September day, and the sellers are processing claims through an Outlook inbox. Recall fraud is now a federal docket.
The $850 Billion Returns Pile Has a Tiny Software Bottleneck
BuyWander raised $21 million automating the ugliest job in reverse logistics. Regional liquidation warehouses still do it with Google Lens and twenty browser tabs. That gap is the wedge.
The $165 Billion Pet Shelf Google Can't See
Uber Direct solved the courier problem for independent pet stores. Nobody solved local inventory you can search, reserve and trust for tonight. A Philadelphia wedge into same-day pet retail.
The $500,000 Water Bill: Auditing Laundromat Deals by the Gallon
A cash laundromat can argue with its P&L. Its water meter is harder to argue with. Acquisition diligence still runs on broker spreadsheets while the median laundromat listing asks $500,000.
FamilyMart's Labor Math, Shrunk to a 7-Store Chain
FamilyMart is re-engineering labor across 16,500 stores from predicted demand. Multi-location grocers and pet retailers on Square still schedule by habit. A Square-first labor planning layer fits between them.
The Firing Receipt: $40K MRR Hiding Inside California's AI Labor Bill
California's SB 947 would require employers to prove a human corroborated any AI-recommended firing. Governance dashboards, bias auditors, and HR systems all miss the evidence window in between.
The Claim-Testing Layer: $20K–$40K MRR From DTC Reviews
A Cornell method for isolating one language dimension at a time, cheap Prolific and PickFu panels, and Shopify brands running $300K Meta budgets off confounded headline tests.
Clip-to-Funnel: The $26K/Month Agency Hiding Inside Short-Form Video
OpusClip and Descript made content repurposing a $15-a-month commodity. The creator-economy money sits in running that machine backwards: viral clips, comment signals, and owned email funnels sold at ghostwriting-agency rates.
The Smart-Glasses Bouncer: $129 a Month to Police Ray-Ban Meta
Meta sold 7 million camera glasses in 2025. Courts, nightclubs, and casinos are banning them with no way to check. That enforcement gap is a subscription business.
The Launch Verdict: $75K MRR Hiding Inside TikTok Shop Research
Kalodata and FastMoss show what's selling on TikTok Shop. Deciding whether to spend money launching a product still eats an afternoon. A Chrome side panel could own that decision.
The $17.99 Submarine Game With No 3D Submarine
Silent Shark hit 98% positive on Steam, built solo in six months with Codex. The edge was what its developer cut. Every bloated simulator genre hides a loop like it.
TikTok Shop's AI-Host Ban Is a $20K MRR Wedge
TikTok Shop now bans AI hosts on promotional LIVEs while U.S. livestream retail heads for $19.8B in 2026. The AI economics agencies want have to move backstage.
The Fit Passport: Shopify Sizing That Asks Instead of Tracks
Apparel returns run 24% and fit is the top reason, yet fewer than 1% of Shopify stores run a sizing app. Zero-party fit data is the opening.